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After 18 balls of disciplined defence, Shorna Akter slogs her 19th straight up in the air to give Georgia Wareham her first wicket. McGrath backpedalled at mid-off to take a comfortable catch above her head.
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Fahima Khatun’s counter-attacking cameo comes to a predictable end. She tries to slog-pull a ball that is too full for the shot and goes miles in the air. Georgia Wareham runs in from deep square to take another well-judged catch.
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Ritu Moni dies by the sweep. She top-edged it high to deep backward square, where Elysse Perry took a good catch diving forward. Molineux has her third wicket and Bangladesh are officially in all sorts.
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Three wickets in three overs! Nigar Sultana pushes defensively outside the line of a textbook arm ball and is trapped LBW. That looked plumb.
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Another one gone. Murshida’s first big shot is her last, a zesty cut stroke that goes straight to Molineux at backward point. Bangladesh are really struggling here.
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That’s the problem with trying to show more urgency. Fargana, on the charge, slices Molineux high over mid-off, and McGrath runs back towards the boundary to take a well-judged catch. Fargana goes for a laboured 7 from 52 balls.
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There’s the first one. Sobhana tries to cut a widish delivery from Schutt that is slightly too full for the stroke and snicks it through to Healy.
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Bangladesh stick with the same XI that played on Thursday. Sophie Molineux for Kim Garth is Australia’s only change.
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Bangladesh Fargana Hoque, Sobhana Mostary, Murshida Khatun, Nigar Sultana (c/wk), Fahima Khatun, Ritu Moni, Shorna Akter, Rabeya Khan, Nahida Akter, Sultana Khatun, Marufa Akter.
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Australia Healy (c/wk), Litchfield, Perry, Mooney, McGrath, Gardner, Sutherland, Wareham, King, Molineux, Schutt.
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Bangladesh vs Australia | Playing XI | 2nd ODI Match
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The left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux comes into the Australian side for her first white-ball match since 2021. She replaces Kim Garth, which suggests another turning pitch in Mirpur.
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Hello and welcome to live, over-by-over coverage of the second ODI between Bangladesh and Australia in Mirpur. Who’s ready for another spinfest? The slow bowlers were very dominant on Thursday, when Australia overcame a difficult start with the bat to win the first ODI by 118 runs. Another victory today would clinch the series with a game to spare.
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This series is about the future as well as the present, though Australia won’t take anything for granted. In the last year Bangladesh have beaten South Africa and India in both white-ball formats, and there were times on Thursday that Australia looked like they might join that list.
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The match begins at 2:30pm AEDT. We’ll have the toss and team news shortly.
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Key events
37th over: Bangladesh 75-8 (Nahida 10, Sultana 5) Gardner starts her eighth over with a wide, the 12th of the innings. That will be Australia’s only slight frustration with this innings. The rest of the over is defended with the utmost care.
36th over: Bangladesh 74-8 (Nahida 10, Sultana 5) Wareham is too good for the lower order, who are struggling to lay a bat on her. Nahida Akhter finds a effective solution: she runs down the track and mows the ball past mid-on for four. That’s it for the over, and time for drinks.
35th over: Bangladesh 70-8 (Nahida 6, Sultana 5) Sultana slogs Gardner over midwicket for a couple. She’s almost bowled round her legs after walking too far across to a delivery from round the wicket that just – and I mean just – misses leg stump.
34th over: Bangladesh 66-8 (Nahida 6, Sultana 3) Wareham almost skids one straight through Nahida, who then survives a run-out appeal after taking a quick single to mid-on. The dive saved her.
33rd over: Bangladesh 64-8 (Nahida 4, Sultana 3) The pitch has offered turn but it’s far from a raging turner. Australia have just been too good. Bangladesh will be slightly frustrated that they haven’t done themselves justice – it’s hard to be sure from this distance but they have seemed a bit starstruck at times.
32nd over: Bangladesh 62-8 (Nahida 4, Sultana 1) Australia’s spinners have combined figures of 23-7-43-7. That. Is. Very. Good.
WICKET! Bangladesh 61-8 (Rabeya LBW b Wareham 2)
Bangladesh’s slow, slow death continues when Rabeya misses a sweep and is plumb LBW to Wareham. That ball was too full to sweep, not unlike Fahima Khatun’s dismissal earlier in the innings.
31st over: Bangladesh 61-7 (Rabeya 2, Nahida 4) Gardner comes on for King, who bowled some beautiful deliveries in a spell of 5-1-15-1. She gets some sharp bounce to Nahida, who is hit on the arm as she pushes tentatively in defence. Bangladesh have been a bit starstruck – understandably so – with an all-or-nothing approach to their batting. Block, block, block, thwack one up in the air.
30th over: Bangladesh 60-7 (Rabeya 2, Nahida 4) The new batter Nahida Akhter edges Wareham just past the diving slip for four.
WICKET! Bangladesh 56-7 (Shorna c McGrath b Wareham 2)
After 18 balls of disciplined defence, Shorna Akter slogs her 19th straight up in the air to give Georgia Wareham her first wicket. McGrath backpedalled at mid-off to take a comfortable catch above her head.
28th over: Bangladesh 56-6 (Shorna 2, Rabeya 2) King implores the umpire to give Rabeya LBW when she misses a sweep, but she doesn’t get her wish. It was pretty close, maybe turning past off stump.
28th over: Bangladesh 53-6 (Shorna 0, Rabeya 1) Georgia Wareham replaces Sophie Molineux. Her first over is a maiden, including a couple of unpunished full tosses to Rabeya Khan. After a brief flurry from Fahima and Ratu, the run-rate has dropped back below two and over.
27th over: Bangladesh 53-6 (Shorna 0, Rabeya 1) While we expected Australia to win this series comfortably, and the upcoming T20s too, it’s such good preparation for the World T20 in Bangladesh later in the year. They certainly aren’t short of high-class spin bowlers.
26th over: Bangladesh 52-6 (Shorna 0, Rabeya 0) What do Shorna Akter and Rabeya Khan do here: try to bat time or just have a swing? Shorna is veering towards the former. She plays out a maiden from Molineux, who ends a brilliant spell with figures of 10-5-10-3.
25th over: Bangladesh 52-6 (Shorna 0, Rabeya 0) Back-to-back wicket maidens from Molineux and now King. And now YouTube has decided it’s time for an advert for togethermoney.com. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO ME?
WICKET! Bangladesh 52-6 (Fahima c Wareham b King 11)
Fahima Khatun’s counter-attacking cameo comes to a predictable end. She tries to slog-pull a ball that is too full for the shot and goes miles in the air. Georgia Wareham runs in from deep square to take another well-judged catch.
24th over: Bangladesh 52-5 (Fahima 11, Shorna 0) A wicket maiden for Molineux, whose figures get better by the over: 9-4-10-3.
WICKET! Bangladesh 52-5 (Ritu c Perry b Molineux 10)
Ritu Moni dies by the sweep. She top-edged it high to deep backward square, where Elysse Perry took a good catch diving forward. Molineux has her third wicket and Bangladesh are officially in all sorts.
23rd over: Bangladesh 52-4 (Fahima 11, Ritu 10) Fahima has a wild heave at King and mishits the ball high in the air. It just clears the player running back from mid-off, and the two runs take Fahima into double figures.
Later in the over King beats Ritu with a jaffa that drifts onto leg stump and then growls past the outside edge. Ritu’s response is excellent, a lofted sweep in front of square for four. Bangladesh aren’t exactly oozing permance at the crease but they have at least standing landing some blows.
22nd over: Bangladesh 44-4 (Fahima 8, Ritu 5) The Australian spinners are rattling through the overs – another maiden from Molineux gives her figures of 8-3-10-2.
21st over: Bangladesh 44-4 (Fahima 8, Ritu 5) The legspinner Alana King comes on for Ash Gardner. A quiet first over, three from it.
20th over: Bangladesh 41-4 (Fahima 7, Ritu 3) Fahima does get the first boundary of the innings, slugging Molineux over mid-off. It wasn’t perfectly struck but she got enough on it, and I must say she has started her innings with impressive intent. It can’t be easy to come to the crease against Australia with your team 25 for three in the 17th over.
19th over: Bangladesh 36-4 (Fahima 3, Ritu 3) An errant delivery from Gardner scuttles away for four wides. Can we call that the first boundary of the innings?
Ritu Moni is denied the first actual boundary when she edges Gardner wide of slip, with Molineux haring to the boundary to make an admirable diving stop
18th over: Bangladesh 27-4 (Fahima 2, Ritu 0) It’s been a fine return for Sophie Molineux, whose figures are 6-2-6-2.
WICKET! Bangladesh 27-4 (Nigar LBW b Molineux 1)
Three wickets in three overs! Nigar Sultana pushes defensively outside the line of a textbook arm ball and is trapped LBW. That looked plumb.
17th over: Bangladesh 26-3 (Nigar 1, Fahima 1) Fahima Khatun gets off the mark with a sweep round the corner. Still no boundaries in the innings.
WICKET! Bangladesh 25-3 (Murshida c Molineux b Gardner 5)
Another one gone. Murshida’s first big shot is her last, a zesty cut stroke that goes straight to Molineux at backward point. Bangladesh are really struggling here.
16th over: Bangladesh 25-2 (Murshida 5, Nigar 1) The captain Nigar Sultana, who top-scored in the first ODI before being run-out in peculiar fashion, is the new batter.
WICKET! Bangladesh 23-2 (Fargana c McGrath b Molineux 7)
That’s the problem with trying to show more urgency. Fargana, on the charge, slices Molineux high over mid-off, and McGrath runs back towards the boundary to take a well-judged catch. Fargana goes for a laboured 7 from 52 balls.
15th over: Bangladesh 23-1 (Fargana 7, Murshida 4) Gardner beats Murshida three times in that over, each time when she was trying to cut. This is an unusual start from Bangladesh, whose run-rate is 1.47 per over. I guess they are just enjoying the chance to bat against Australia, but maybe they could show a bit more urgency.
14th over: Bangladesh 22-1 (Fargana 6, Murshida 4) Murshida looks an elegant left-hander, with an easy flow of the bat. She made an unbeaten 91 in that sensational hammering of South Africa late last year.
Two runs from Molineux’s fourth over.
13th over: Bangladesh 20-1 (Fargana 5, Murshida 3) Ash Gardner preplaces Schutt and gives the ball some air straight away. Fargana runs down the pitch but again can’t beat the close fielders on the leg side. It feels like something have to give here, with Fargana now on 5 from 47 balls. She has made centuries for Bangladesh in both white-ball codes so this performance is out of character.
12th over: Bangladesh 19-1 (Fargana 5, Murshida 2) Molineux has a slip and leg gully for Murshida, who thick edges wide of slip for a single. After the YouTube feed cuts to an advert for Corsodyl – what are they trying to tell me – Molineux bowls a quicker one that Fargana just manages to inside edge onto the pad. That was close.
Fargana has 5 from 42 balls, Murshida 2 from 10. We are back in 1989.
11th over: Bangladesh 18-1 (Fargana 5, Murshida 1) Schutt, bowling round the wicket to the left-hander, almost gets her second wicket when Murshida clips just short of Litchfield at midwicket. A single to fine leg gets her off the mark. At some stage Bangladesh will have to change gears but for now they are taking the opportunity to bat time against a world-class attack.
Schutt has figures of 6-2-7-1, with five of those runs (I think) coming from wides.
10th over: Bangladesh 17-1 (Fargana 5, Murshida 0) Fargana survives an LBW appeal after pushing around a good delivery from Molineux. It was probably missing leg.
Fargana tries to be proactive by coming down the track, but she can’t pierce the infield. That’s been a problem for Bangladesh throughout the first 10 overs. Another maiden for Molineux, who has started really well in her first ODI since 2021.
9th over: Bangladesh 17-1 (Fargana 5, Murshida 0) The left-handed Murshida Khatun is the new batter. Australia have the innings under control; in fact they’ve conceded more runs in wides than they have off the bat.
The umpires asked Sobhana to hang around while the third umpire checked whether it was a front-foot no-ball. The footage wasn’t conclusive, at least not the pictures we saw, so Sobhana is on her way.
WICKET! Bangladesh 17-1 (Sobhana c Healy b Schutt 3)
There’s the first one. Sobhana tries to cut a widish delivery from Schutt that is slightly too full for the stroke and snicks it through to Healy.
8th over: Bangladesh 17-0 (Fargana 5, Sobhana 3) Sophie Molineux replaces Elysse Perry, whose three overs went for 11. She was player of the match in the WPL final, when she took three top-order wickets in four magical deliveries, and she is on the money straight away. It’s a maiden to Fargana, who has pottered to 5 from 31 balls. Shobana has 3 from 17.
7th over: Bangladesh 17-0 (Fargana 5, Sobhana 3) Fargana pulls a single off Schutt, the first run she has conceded off the bat; then there are two more wides, which makes it eight in the innings already. That’s really unlike Australia.
6.2 overs: Bangladesh 14-0 (Fargana 4, Sobhana 3) A length ball from Schutt kicks nastily to hit Fargana in the grille as she pushes forward. There’s a break in play while she is checked by the physio, though she seems okay.
6th over: Bangladesh 14-0 (Fargana 4, Sobhana 3) Schutt and Perry are bowling a full length to maximise any movement, with the occasional surprise short ball thrown in. Perry’s bouncer is called wide, the sixth of the innings already. It’s been a sedate, almost strokeless start from the Bangladesh openers.
5th over: Bangladesh 11-0 (Fargana 3, Sobhana 2) Schutt and Healy are certain that Fargana has top-edged a hook through to the keeper; the umpire doesn’t agree and there’s no DRS in this series.
A maiden from Schutt, who is yet to concede a run off the bat.
4th over: Bangladesh 11-0 (Fargana 3, Sobhana 2) Sobhana can’t take advantage of a couple of full tosses from Perry. She timed the second quite nicely but Gardner made a very good stop in the covers.
After another wide from Perry, Sobhana gets off the mark with a flick through midwicket for two. It’s been a reasonable start for Bangladesh, even if Fargana has had a bit of luck.
3rd over: Bangladesh 8-0 (Fargana 3, Sobhana 0) The openers are taking no risks against Schutt, who is hooping the new ball back into the right-hander. One ball does too much and is called wide; everything else is spot on and defended carefully by Fargana.
2nd over: Bangladesh 7-0 (Fargana 3, Sobhana 0) Elysse Perry takes the new ball in the absence of Kim Garth. She starts with a leg-side wide, but her first legitimate delivery almost brings a wicket when Fargana top-edges a pull straight over the head of Healy.
Fargana is riding her luck. She’s beaten by some extravagant seam movement, then edges a drive between slip and gully at catchable height. There’s another wide later in the over – the third of the innings and Australia’s 12th of the series so far.
1st over: Bangladesh 2-0 (Fargana 0, Sobhana 0) Schutt gets her usual inswing, with one ball curving prodigiously back into Fargana Hoque. Bangladesh get off the mark with a wide that slips down the leg side for a single, then Sobhana survives an LBW appeal after playing around another inswinger. It might have been too high.
The players are ready for action. Megan Schutt will bowl the opening over.
There was heavy rainfall overnight, but the match will start on time. A fresh pitch is being used for the game so there might be a bit of life for the quick bowlers early on. Alyssa Healy says her gut feel is that the pitch may play a bit better than on Thursday.
The teams
Bangladesh stick with the same XI that played on Thursday. Sophie Molineux for Kim Garth is Australia’s only change.
Bangladesh Fargana Hoque, Sobhana Mostary, Murshida Khatun, Nigar Sultana (c/wk), Fahima Khatun, Ritu Moni, Shorna Akter, Rabeya Khan, Nahida Akter, Sultana Khatun, Marufa Akter.
Australia Healy (c/wk), Litchfield, Perry, Mooney, McGrath, Gardner, Sutherland, Wareham, King, Molineux, Schutt.
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Bangladesh win the toss and bat
The left-arm spinner Sophie Molineux comes into the Australian side for her first white-ball match since 2021. She replaces Kim Garth, which suggests another turning pitch in Mirpur.
The coverage hasn’t started yet so we don’t know who has won the toss, or whether there is life in Mirpur. There’s quite a retro feel to this series; I feel like I should be snuggled up in bed with a transistor radio crackling into life every few minutes.
The first ODI was an intriguing game on a tricky pitch in Mirpur. Australia were in trouble early on – 48 for four, then 112 for six – but Annabel Sutherland and Alana King powered them to 213 for seven, with King belting five sixes. It proved to be more than enough.
Alyssa Healy: 34 today
"Alyssa Healy's got a hat-trick on her birthday!"
Manifesting this. Happy birthday skipper ❤️ pic.twitter.com/pFrEUayJNr
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Preamble
Hello and welcome to live, over-by-over coverage of the second ODI between Bangladesh and Australia in Mirpur. Who’s ready for another spinfest? The slow bowlers were very dominant on Thursday, when Australia overcame a difficult start with the bat to win the first ODI by 118 runs. Another victory today would clinch the series with a game to spare.
This series is about the future as well as the present, though Australia won’t take anything for granted. In the last year Bangladesh have beaten South Africa and India in both white-ball formats, and there were times on Thursday that Australia looked like they might join that list.
The match begins at 2:30pm AEDT. We’ll have the toss and team news shortly.
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